on 10/12/00 11:49 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> In a message dated 10/13/00 2:07:56 AM Eastern Daylight Time,
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
>
> <<
> Joni sang:
>
> Seventeen glasses
> Rhine wine
> Milk of the Madonna
> Clandestine
>>>
> Personally, while I enjoyed plenty of bottles of liebfraumich in my late
> teens and 20s, I think this is one of Joni's worst lyrics because she
> perverts the pronunciation of clandestine, the preferred pronunciation of
> which has a silent e on the end and the accent on the middle syllable.
> Pronunciation: klan-'des-t&n
> Maybe she should have tried to rhyme something with liebfraumilch instead of
> Rhine wine.
>
> Paul I
As far as I am concerned songwriters, rhymers, and the like should be given
the latitude because they are almost always singers as well. Dave Matthews,
Robert Plant and a host of other singers take all kinds of latitudes when it
comes to proper annunciation is concerned. I remember Elton pronouncing
garage as guerrrage in Levon, but it was one of the charming things about
the song. Plant was also guilty of making something from a hook even if it
was a miss-pronounciation of a word. Were you also as critical of big
boo-hoo in Man From Mars? Come on Pauly, just for sake of discussion or
Conversation you may need to lighten up just a bit. At least she didn't
stoop as low as "Got Milk!" ( I know before its time, but you know what I
mean).
Paz
NP-CNN (yuck)
